Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1887-02-03

shipped annually, Attending employnsez|l
20 large number Of citizens, and brinxznr
quite large amount Of money 70 the coul
| ~. In the son mud Of those same cree
the famous diamond-back terrapin fin1s
Winter quarters 1t the breaking d :
Winter large numbers may becaueht. RI
lily bringing from SO 10 as dozen. 4
in the Summer they abound with the
Of fish and son crabs. which not or
afford home luxury, but Of late ycai
have become profitable business, beinz
shipped by steamers 10 Washington an
Baltimore. On the banks OF the St. Maryx
River might be established choice vine
yards where the grapes could be shipped
or made into wine. Il is on the southern
banks Of this river, where, according %
latest survey, the terminus Of the s. N. r.
K is 10 be. A river Of clear shore, without
marshes, the banks of which are elevated
considerably above the water level. and
with the numerous farmhouses looking
down upon il, il commands one Of the finest
views To be found anywhere, the water Of
which is so deep that steamers can almost
come with their bows on shore, requiring
whavesonly ten, twenty or thirty feet long !;
afording one Of the finest and most capa-
cious harbors in the world. Much has
been said Of this beautiful body Of water.
resembling more in il circuisous form a
vast lake than a river. But viii only
mention one of the latest tributes paid IL
by Gen Bradley T. johnson, after his trip
reaching almost from the Atlantic tos-slpg
Rocky Mountains Il will not attempt 20
quote his words from memory, but will
give the substance. He said, though he
had seen richer lands, he had found no place
where he had rather live than in Southern
Maryland, and Of that section, there was
no spot that offered more delightful and
happy home than on the banks of that
crystal and beautiful sheet of water, the
ST. Mary's River.
1t has been said, the three drawbacks 10
ST. Mary's county are its poor lands, mala-
ria and mosquitoes. The poor land can be
enriched here at as little cost as anywhere
else. Lime from the Schuylkill can he
obtained by boats as cheap as within thirty
miles of the kilns in Frederick or Carroll
counties by railroad. Or by the use of
phosphate and clover and proper and ju-
dicious mode of farming. We have mus
quitoes for a short time in the Summer,
but they are principally confined to the
Bay shore, where they pay a flying visit
when the wind is from the East, to the
great relief of our neighbors across the
water but as they are night nuisance
they may be kept out of our houses
by wire doors and netting. Happily
they do not last long for the first west
erly wind watts them across the Bay again.
As for that, have been as much annoyed
in Baltimore, as ever was in St Mary's,
and find netting as necessary there as here.
And as for the malaria, its effects may be
warded off or guarded against in great
measure. The lining of the land it is said
modifies and TO n great extent lessons its
effects. How it acts am not prepared to
say. 1t may act as an antidote 10 the poi
son. Since it has become fashionable now
a-days to attribute the origin of all diseases
to the germ theory it may destroy the ma
laria germs, but shall leave this to scien-
contine myself to stating the result of ex-
perience on the Eastern Shore of Maryland,
where it has been claimed wherever the
land has been thoroughly lined, there is
less of the remittent and intermittent fevers
than formerly existed. Ii is fact well
known 10 physicians that where there is an
endemic disease epidemics and diseases of
other types are less apt 10 prevail. and our
disease is not of fatal character think |
can safely state after an experience Of over
thirty years in this climate, that not more
than one case in thousand Of SIMPLE bill
Gus remittent fever, uncomplicated, when
seen in time and properly treated, proves
FATAL there is no disease that is more con-
trollable by medicine. II is true when il is
hh tlit Npue,tStANC ~ IL iiOiC I1idl. bQt
We have much less of il in that form than
along the Western rivers and further South.
We have less typhoid, much more fatal
disease, which is more apt to prevail in non
malarious sections; less pneumonia, less
consumption and other pulmonary diseases,
less inflammatory rheumatism, less of that
scourge, the diphtheria, less of the small
pox and other contagious diseases. Now
in the face of all this who would not be
apt TO think, that after all, the malaria was
a blessing in disguise. / cannot say as
much for the healthfulneSs of our climate
as has been said Of some parts of Norway,
that when the people want 10 die they have
to emigrate, but think the mortality is
less, according to population than in any
other part of the country, and where the
people have good constitutions and take
care Of themselves and do not shorten their
days by intemperance in eating and drink
ing, they live TO be as old as they do in any
part of the world, often living 10 the age
of from so to 80 years, and some few at
tanning the advanced age of 90.